The Entombment (Michelangelo)

The Entombment
ArtistMichelangelo
Yearc. 1500–1501
CatalogueNG790
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions161.7 cm × 149.9 cm (63.7 in × 59.0 in)
ConditionUnfinished
LocationNational Gallery, London
Preceded byRondanini Pietà
Followed byDoni Tondo

The Entombment is an unfinished oil-on-panel painting of the burial of Jesus, now generally attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti and dated to around 1500 or 1501. It is in the National Gallery in London, which purchased the work in 1868 from Robert Macpherson, a Scottish photographer resident in Rome, who, according to various conflicting accounts,[1] had acquired the painting there some 20 years earlier. It is one of a handful of paintings attributed to Michelangelo, alongside the Manchester Madonna, the Doni Tondo, and possibly, The Torment of Saint Anthony.

  1. ^ Hirst & Dunkerton 1994, p. 131, endnote 11.